Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ramona!andrew
From: andrew@ramona.UUCP (Andrew Ernest)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: PC simulator
Message-ID: <315@ramona.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 23:51:01 GMT
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I am interested in studying minix but would rather run it under UNIX
using the simulator than try to fight it out on a real PC.  Before I
order the tape, I would like to hear from people who have gone this
route.  Does it really work?  Are there any significant limitations
(other than speed)?  How difficult will it be to port to System V.2?
Will I be cheating myself out of the best part of the education if I
don't run it on the real iron?

What about the UNIX-based cross compiler?  If I do decide to run minix
on a real PC, can I at least do the compiling under UNIX and somehow
get the executables to the PC?  Or will the output of the UNIX-based
compiler only run under the simulator?

Any information, hints, warnings, and experience reports will be
gratefully accepted.

Andrew Ernest
UUCP: uunet!ramona!andrew
other: andrew%ramona@uunet.uu.net